Originally Posted by
Bartok
I see it differently.
Delta is offering us to go along with their ride and prosper with them.
If you slap their hand they like to teach people where they actually stand.
Their negotiating stance is that they hold all the cards and you have nothing. (Delta pilots can buck this stance because they actually do have some cards)
They want us to fly 700's and we are getting additional 900's. They can change that and just let our 200's go away without shifting any of those other aircraft from where they are now.
Then we are fat on pilots.
They don't renew the bonus and wait for section 6 negotiations in 2020. Stretch it out as long as they like.
At that point they can play hard ball or soft ball whatever suits them.
They own the balls.
What I fear more, is that in a few years, Delta will have a steady college bridge program of new pilots flowing into here, that are already hired as Delta pilots. Those pilots are not likely going to work for anything better than the status quo.